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I am a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. I am working on a dissertation that investigates the information needs of patients with type 2 diabetes in the context of smartphone use. I am eager to know your information needs and develop useful diabetes apps. This survey is a part of my dissertation. Please take this survey. I appreciate your help.https://utexas.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KXzgQrKpsavegB

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Why not instead focus on something actually useful like how to better control diabetes.

If they knew how to do that, they would know what information was useful. But the reality is that every Diabetic likely finds different info valuable. BG is of course the ultimate data, but there is so much more to the juggling act we use for Diabetes treatment. In my case the most useful data (beyond BG) would be accurate and trustworthy food labels. I try to avoid packaged food to a large degree but when I indulge (i don't mean cheat) calculating carbohydrates can be a fairly challenging exercise. Not to mention knowing if an item will cause a quick spike or not.

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Can't talk about Iphones but Android is insidious at collecting data and sending it to google. Smartphones could be useful tools but are being extensively abused by the producers of the software.

I spent 35 years in the tech industry and am fairly paranoid about keeping my information private. But it is impossible because I choose to use a smartphone. I would keep my health data OFF my smartphone.

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I got a kick out of that. Also the questions asking me where I was (work), what I was doing (work) if there were people around me (coworkers) and did I talk to any of them (no its none of their business).

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I got a kick out of that. Also the questions asking me where I was (work), what I was doing (work) if there were people around me (coworkers) and did I talk to any of them (no its none of their business).

I know! Reading those questions reminded me of the Lois Lerner IRS scandal. I half expected the next question to ask me what I pray for and what book I was currently reading.

I didn't answer ANY questions.... cause you know, T1... but my academic curiosity couldn't help but go look.